Tomás Paiva Ferreira

Directing

Tomás Paiva Ferreira

Born

1998-10-26 (27)

Place of birth

Coimbra, Portugal

Known for

Directing

Credits

8 titles

Tomás Ferreira is a Portuguese film writer-director. His passion for writing soon developed during his bachelor degree at Lisbon Theatre and Film School, where he matured his storytelling voice through specialization on Screenwriting and Editing, before going onto his first director endeavors, during his Masters in Film Directing at the University of South Wales in the UK (Cardiff). Tomás wrote, directed and edited both documentary and fiction short films. In 2019, he was one of the Biennal of Contemporary Arts participants on the workshop "Spirits, Shadows and Reflections" by the award-winning director João Salaviza. In 2020, he co-wrote a short film accepted for a creative supporting prog…

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

FATE poster
NR

Alex is a young woman diagnosed with an incurable illness. When a party is thrown for her by her best friend Jordan, seeing it as a chance to say a last goodbye, Alex inexplicably leaves overwhelmed. We follow Jordan as she finds Alex on their favourite nature hideaway and tries to understand her friend's reason for seeking solitude.

FATE

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Away in Silence poster
NR

Julia, an impaired elderly lady left to take care of her grandson as her daughter goes to work, faces a big decision when accidentally dropping her grandson’s only edible food: help the starving toddler using her new crutches to find food outside or in her selfishness, refuse to use them out of shame.

Away in Silence

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Away in Silence poster
NR

Julia, an impaired elderly lady left to take care of her grandson as her daughter goes to work, faces a big decision when accidentally dropping her grandson’s only edible food: help the starving toddler using her new crutches to find food outside or in her selfishness, refuse to use them out of shame.

Away in Silence

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Coming and Going poster
NR

Abroad at the time of her death, a grandson returns to revisit the house of his late grandmother, now occupied by another family. A reflection on the love for a home where one grew up and yet made by a grandmother missing another life, in another house, in another country.

Coming and Going

2024

Coming and Going poster
NR

Abroad at the time of her death, a grandson returns to revisit the house of his late grandmother, now occupied by another family. A reflection on the love for a home where one grew up and yet made by a grandmother missing another life, in another house, in another country.

Coming and Going

2024

In a House, At Night poster
5.0

On Halloween night, in a women’s shelter, 7-year-old Lynn sulks about missing her old house and dares to leave her mother’s bed in a tantrum, hurting her. Separated and alone, the young girl re-encounters fear as witness of the asleep victims' nightmares, while Alice, her mother, dangerously ponders about calling back her husband so to give Lynn her family again…

In a House, At Night

2023

In a House, At Night poster
5.0

On Halloween night, in a women’s shelter, 7-year-old Lynn sulks about missing her old house and dares to leave her mother’s bed in a tantrum, hurting her. Separated and alone, the young girl re-encounters fear as witness of the asleep victims' nightmares, while Alice, her mother, dangerously ponders about calling back her husband so to give Lynn her family again…

In a House, At Night

2023